Survey of English Dialects recording in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D082
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 54.9969, -1.79386 )
Date(s): 21 Mar 1953
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 50 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 39 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726847
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Thomas describes in detail how to make cartwheel, explains components, incl. 'nave' [= wooden block at centre of wheel to which spokes are attached and through which axle runs], spokes, 'felly' [= section of wooden rim], shoulders, 'hoop' [= iron rim round wheel] and 'bush' [= metal lining in which axle sits]. [Side 2] Thomas describes components of cart, incl. 'cod' [= axle bearing], 'limber' [= cart-shaft] and 'stay' [= cross-beam end], explains distinction between long-cart and 'coup-cart' [= tip-cart], comments only see 'muck-cart' [= dung-cart] now as most vehicles motorised and making traditional cart too expensive, recalls making barrows out of oak or ash.
Biography or history
Thomas b. Heddon-on-the-Wall, aged 74.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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